AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3203 



Locations frequented by American vessels for Mackerel 



Actual value of Fish in the water, before taking Magdalen W " DI 

 Actual value of Mackerel in water, before taken 



Facts as to changes in location and mode of ooodootiog American flub 



enes 



Business has become so unremunative that I have IMVII oompHM to 

 abandon it, so as Bay St. Lawrence. Oath now with wnen in 

 can waters. Never got fish within English jurisdiction but on Lank* 

 tar ii'oin snore. 



LEV I UKKH 



STATE OF MAINE 

 LINCOLN s.s. 



Sworn and subscribed to before me, this Twenty-second day of MftT 

 1877 

 (Seal.) G. B. KENNISTON 



Xotary 1'utilir 

 No. 131. 



This is to certify, That the undersigned, Charles C. Blake have been 

 engaged in the fishing business for the past six years, at Boothbav, Me. 

 and that since the Washington Treaty, so called, has been in effect, our 

 vessels have been employed as follows : 



No. of Vessels employed Two 



No. of Trips made Two trip* each 



1873 & 1H74 



No. of Trips to Bay St. Lawrence 2, bbU only. 



11<> lilO 

 No. of Barrels of Mackerel caught within 3 miles of shore, 



not including Magdalene Islands . not one tenth 



Average value of Vessels each $ l.'itio 



Average value of Outfits, Salt, Bait, &c 



Average value of Insurance 10 |er cent 



Average value of Captains' and Crews' time, viz., wages per mo. 



.4 |i |MT month 



Average value of Commissions, &c 



Average value of Wharves, Fish-houses, &c., for curing and packing, 

 including expenses of Clerks, Proprietors and labor on shore 



Six thousand dollar*. 



Number of Vessels lost 



Value of Vessels lost, including outfits . 



Value of Fish lost 



Number of Lives lost 



Total value of Fish taken, before curing, splitting, salmi}*. *c. per 



cwt 50 cent* per 1< 



Total value of Mackerel taken, before curing, splitting, uniting. &r. t per 



bbl.... ' -.* |r bW. 



Total value of Fish taken within three miles of British shore* 



caught none 



Total value of Mackerel do 



Average market value of American Shore Marker 

 Average market value of Bay Mackerel . 

 Average earnings of the operative 1: n 



